May 2024

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Primate’s visit to Kootenay Diocese

Holy Week 2024

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Archbishop Lynne McNaughton: Message Approaching SYNOD

Anglican Diocese of Kootenay SYNOD | May 23 – 26 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not ...

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Lynne McNaughton

Support and Encouragement

In the early 2000s, all across North America, a new conversation about church was brewing. Younger people from a variety of denominational streams were waking ...

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Mission of Love

Recently, a Friday (12:15) Eucharist at the Cathedral drew us into the life of Bishop Edward King (1825-1910). Before becoming Bishop of Lincoln, King taught ...

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David Tiessen

Cultivate Your Call

On May 1, 2024, I celebrated my 20th anniversary of ordination to the Diaconate. It seems important to share some autobiographical details in the hopes ...

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Heather Karabelas

A Hatful of Change

The story is told about a woman who was walking on a stormy beach with her husband when a great wave fell onto the shore ...

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Kevin Arndt

Making Sense of Scripture Readings

Have you ever read or listened to a scripture passage that was difficult to understand? I certainly have, but over the years I have developed ...

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Norene Morrow

A Poem

My Hand Out of the dust You created me So shall my body praise You Working in unity with my Creator I will go beyond ...

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Elizabeth Truant

Pierre Teihard de Chardin

(1881-1955) Controversial Visionary and Mystic In his book Everything Ablaze, Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Paulist Press, 2017), David Richo writes ...

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Catherine Ripley

Singing Through These Changing Times

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Norene Morrow

Witness and Dialogue Part 4 of 5 — Synthesis

Jesus calls us to carry his good news to the farthest comers of the world, making disciples, “among all nations.” In every age, his people ...

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Stuart E Brown

Around About the Diocese May 2024

Lighting the Paschal Candle, Holy Trinity, Grand Forks

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Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

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Lynne McNaughton

The Beginning

What if this is only the beginning? While empires clash, while sea levels rise, while markets crash, and temperatures rise, how might we live if ...

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Carols into January!

Well, it’s January, and the Christmas season has been over for quite some time … according to the secular commercial world. Going by their calendar, ...

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Norene Morrow

Around and About the Diocese

98th Birthday Celebrated, St Margaret’s, Peachland A beloved member of St Margaret’s Parish in Peachland for some 68 years, Betty Sutherland, recently celebrated her 98th ...

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The HighWay

Unfolding the New

2025 has come, and in the transition to this new year, many of us have embraced the ritual of the many familiar occurrences and cultural ...

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David Burrows

In Memoriam

Kootenay Contact announced the passing of three retired priests in November: The Rev. Mark Mealing, the Rev. Brock Lupton, and the Rev. James Kiddel: May ...

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It’s a Matter of Time

We live in a world filled with time. There’s not enough of it, or too much of it. We save it, or we waste it. ...

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Andrea Brennan

Epiphany 2025: All Through the Year!

As we open our hearts to God’s presence around us and to the ways God speaks to our hearts in this liminal season of ...

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Trish McCarthy

Milestone Ministries

Michelle Collins is a Lutheran Deacon who offers a workshop sponsored by the North American Deacon’s Conference. With the transitions happening in our churches today, ...

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Patricia Simons

God Bless the Diocese!

I am writing this article on the cusp of our new church year, and as you read it, a new calendar year is just beginning. ...

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Catherine Ripley

Whose Cloud? Which Light?

Back in 2021, the Rev. Canon Dr. Herb O’Driscoll (1928-2024) served as the speaker (by Zoom) to our annual clergy conference for the Diocese of ...

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David Tiessen

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The HighWay is an online newspaper serving Anglicans in the Diocese of Kootenay, British Columbia. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Peoples, the Ktunaxa and Kinbasket Peoples, the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Peoples, and the Sinixt (Arrow Lakes) Peoples.

May 2024

The Primate Visits Kootenay

Primate’s visit to Kootenay Diocese

Archbishop Lynne McNaughton: Message Approaching SYNOD

Support and Encouragement

Mission of Love

Cultivate Your Call

A Hatful of Change

Making Sense of Scripture Readings

A Poem

Pierre Teihard de Chardin

Singing Through These Changing Times

Witness and Dialogue Part 4 of 5 — Synthesis

Around About the Diocese May 2024

January 2025

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

The Beginning

Carols into January!

Around and About the Diocese

Unfolding the New

In Memoriam

It’s a Matter of Time

Epiphany 2025: All Through the Year!

Milestone Ministries

God Bless the Diocese!

Whose Cloud? Which Light?

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